Monday, April 2, 2012

Winning Suffrage in Texas

Texas:

  • Lieutenant Governor William Hobby made a deal with the suffragists: If women campaign for him and prohibition, he will advocate women's suffrage
  • 1918: Women could vote in primary elections
  • Women campaigned for Hobby
  • Hobby won governorship
  • 1919: Texas was the 9th state to ratify the 19th Amendment

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